Money Is The Best Rule Of Commerce.

Without The Knowledge Of The True Number Of The People, As A Principle, The Whole Scope And Use Of Keeping Bills Of Birth And Burials Is Impaired; Wherefore By Laborious Conjectures And Calculations To Deduce The Number Of People From The Births And Burials, May Be Ingenious, But Very Preposterous.

For Every Seaman Of Industry And Ingenuity, Is Not Only A Navigator, But A Merchant, And Also A Soldier.

Causes Of Civil War Are Also, That The Wealth Of The Nation Is In Too Few Mens Hands, And That No Certain Means Are Provided To Keep All Men From A Necessity Either To Beg, Or Steal, Or Be Souldiers.

No Man Pays Double Or Twice For The Same Thing, Forasmuch As Nothing Can Be Spent But Once.

The Method I Take To Do This Is Not Yet Very Usual; For Instead Of Using Only Comparative And Superlative Words, And Intellectual Arguments, I Have Taken The Course (as A Specimen Of The Political Arithmetic I Have Long Aimed At) To Express Myself In Terms Of Number, Weight, Or Measure; To Use Only Arguments Of Sense, And To Consider Only Such Causes, As Have Visible Foundations In Nature.